Around for some time as a
video-for-sale site like clips4sale.com SkinVideo has recently
started to have live cams as well. As they already had a great
number of adult models on their site selling videos it has given them a
good start with live chat as they are not starting entirely from
scratch. Despite the cams section being new they have many models
registered, enough for there to be 5 to 10 online at time.

Not I'll admit a large number, but the quality is way above average
in terms of being good looking native English speakers who have real
experience as adult entertainers.

The
web site is on the plain looking side, which means it loads fast and is
easy to navigate. No funky scrolilng in frames like
MFC or loud reds you see over at
Livejasmin, just simple thumbnails on a
white background with a simple header.

Clicking a thumbnail, which has no description apart from the name,
takes me straight into a typical basic Flash video and text chat window,
a bit like the F4F one. No
membership required to just be a guest in free chat, and as the
who-is-online screen doesn't show who is in free and who is in private
you have to just click and see. At the time I was checking there
were 6 chatrooms running and of that 3 where in a private or group chat,
which means guests see nothing.

Of the free rooms It's quite notable to me that the first few rooms I
click into are more MILF than the typical teen hosts seen some places.
Maybe that was just an accident of the moment but perhaps this type of
site attracts more independent long term entertainers, who would then be
older? Something to consider if you like a more mature
conversation with your camlady.

For
a chatroom with unregistered guests it is pretty civilized both in terms
of pleasant and positive comments from those guests, and not one single
system generated message bugging me to signup which are so common at
most sites. At the sometime not a lot is happening, in the
room I can only see a couple of other guests chatting along with me -
some of them in Romanian. But from the way the hosts are
distracted they are presumably doing something else as well which you
can't blame them for on a small site, two are on the phone as well.

Given that there isn't any reason to register when you are only
watching free chat it might be a while before you bother to make an
account as a viewer, but when you do it turns out you can't have one for
free.

Take care where you click. If you hit the "Join" link in the
top right this is actually joining SkinVideo.com - the video site.
And for that the most basic is $15/month which seem a lot for a
membership alone, and it does not include any chat credits.

What that membership gets you see the right to download their
recorded videos, remembers this site is called skinvideo, which
are video clips made by lots of girls, not your typical webcam private
recordings but proper video clips as you would find on an amateur or
even pro porn pay site. Whether that is a good deal depends a lot
on whether you are interested in vids from any of the models working
there; if you are a fan then it is probably a no-brainer, but if not
then it seems a strange option when porn videos are basically free
today.

And if you are only interested because of the Cams section, which is
what I am looking at here, then it may seem an unattractive option.

So
for a cam viewer what you should be doing is going into any room in the
Cams section and clicking "Purchase tokens". That gets you to a
different membership window where again you have a pay, but this time
for tokens. It is 10 cents a token, less if you buy in bulk, and a
minimum of $20 worth. Credit card processing is via Vendo
and takes all the major cards; Visa, MC, JCB, Discover and Diners.
Not seeing any other options so if you want to use online checks or wire
or some type of electronic payment system then you can't do that
here.

This cams-only account can of course be upgraded later to watch
recorded videos, but that's optional . Stick with just the cam
account and now you have a name in the chat and with tokens of
course you will get more attention from the hosts.

As well as attention in free you can use tokens to enter private or
group chats, or to send tips. Although this is more a traditional
for-privates type of site many of the hosts do mention in their bio that
they will do things for tips.

Group
shows are 10 tokens, that's $1, a minute while private works out at
$6/minute - less if you are buying tokens in bulk. Charging is
actually by the six second period rather than full minutes.

If you run out of tokens during a show it will end and you have to go
and buy more, there is no continuous charging like at
camcontacts.

A minor grumble is that clicking on a thumbnail in who's online
doesn't take you to a new web page, it's still the same url, so if you
hit the "back" button in your browser hoping to go back to the
thumbnails it doesn't do what you expect. Instead it takes you to
the actual previous page. Similarly if you bookmark while you are
watching a chathost you are not really bookmarking that particular room,
but just the skinvideo cams section in general.

It is possible to bookmark a particular host's bio page, but you have
to explicitly go through to that by clicking their name, though that
doesn't always work, sometimes I get a "404 not found" error.
Right clicking on a thumbnail and opening in a new window or tab does
always work though and gives you a url for that host which you can save,
but it has no navigation to reach the rest of the site. Given that
the system doesn't have any built in "favorite host" system that's
probably something they should take a look at fixing.

If you want to be a chathost on the skinvideo cam system then signup here.
That creates a cam system account, though you can still use it to sell
videos that you have uploaded. e.g. not recorded webcam privates but
actual videos you have shot with a proper camera. Upload any video
file and the skinvideo.com system will generate the thumbnails, make a
flash version, and let you price and schedule it for publication.

Signup for the cam system requires you to give an email first and
confirm it, then you get to a page to uploaded your scanned ID and take
a live webcam pic to show who you are. There is a boilerplate
modeling agreement, and then a performance rules agreement both to be
agreed to. Payments to hosts
is by Check or by Payoneer and is processed very Monday. The
models get 8 cents for each token they have received.